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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Chapter 1 From Cities to Megaregions -- A Brief History of the Progression of Thought on How the Built Landscape Is Organized / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 2 Megapolitan Convergence -- Soft-Nosed Planning and the New Regional Governance / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 3 Defining What is Megapolitan / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 4 The Rural-Megapolitan Continuum / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 5 Megapolitan Areas as America's New Economic Core / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 6 Megapolitan Attractiveness / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 7 Key Population Trends / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 8 Megapolitan Development / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 9 Transportation Planning and the Megapolitans / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 10 Implications of Megapolitan America for Land, Water, and Air Resources / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 11 Cascadia Megapolitan Cluster / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 12 Sierra Pacific Megapolitan Area / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 13 Southwest Megapolitan Cluster / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 14 Mountain Megapolitan Cluster / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 15 Texas Triangle Megapolitan Cluster / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 16 Twin Cities Megapolitan Area / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 17 Great Lakes Megapolitan Cluster / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 18 Florida Megapolitan Cluster / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 19 Piedmont Megapolitan Cluster / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter 20 Megalopolis Megapolitan Cluster / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang -- chapter Epilogue the Megapolitan Century / \n Nelson\n Arthur C.\n Robert E. Lang |
| Summary |
"With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three 'megapolitan' areas that will dominate the nation's economy by midcentury. These 'megapolitan' areas are networks of metropolitan areas sharing common economic, landscape, social, and cultural characteristics. The rise of 'megapolitan' areas will change how America plans. For instance, in an area comparable in size to France and the low countries of the Netherlands and Belgium considered among the world's most densely settled America's 'megapolitan' areas are already home to more than two and a half times as many people. Indeed, with only eighteen percent of the contiguous forty-eight states land base, America's megapolitan areas are more densely settled than Europe as a whole or the United Kingdom. Megapolitan America goes into spectacular demographic, economic, and social detail in mapping the dramatic and surprisingly optimistic shifts ahead. It will be required reading for those interested in Americas future."--Provided by publisher |
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Metropolitan areas -- United States.
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Cities and towns -- United States
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Regional planning -- United States
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Cities and towns
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Economic history
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Metropolitan areas
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Regional planning
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Social conditions
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United States -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140020
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United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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United States
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Electronic book
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Lang, Robert
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Carbonell, Armondo
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| ISBN |
9781351178938 |
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1351178938 |
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